MMattyK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 3:06 pm
The point being, would these automated pilots have to go through a training regime to build their hours up to fly a particular aircraft, would they be 'perfect' pilots and not incur any penalties or crashes as actual pilots do, will the flights have a pre-selected chance of an in-flight failure of some sort which the automated pilots will have to deal with, else someone could set up an airline, buy an aircraft or enough aircraft for the auto pilots to fly, make tons of cash and never have to deal with damage or crashes.
For my two penneth I think there should be a 'randomness' incorporated into these automated piloted flights, such that they do have to deal with emergencies, hence my thoughts regarding a training regime for them, with the more hours on type, the less chance of not being able to deal with emergencies.
Not trying to advertise for Just Flight's Air Hauler 2, but that all describes actually what happens in that. You hire pilots, they have to be type rated for the aircraft they will fly, but with low experience, they can have hard landings, etc. so, I have to check almost daily for aircraft to be repaired, but they are limited to 8 hours, so if I want the aircraft to fly longer then I have to have two crew. As they get their hours, I they rank up and there is a skills list that I choose what they have added. So like softer landings, faster passenger boarding (yes it does real time boarding).
When I want to fly one the their routes, I choose it before they do it, then set the sim time to about 30 minutes before, gives me enough time to do my setup. Boarding starts automatically, when finished I can go and do my push back and take off. It gives me more time then I usually have to have.
Now do I think FSAirlines should be so complex? No, it is nice that a lot of new things are being added, but having random events and emergencies with autos would be a lot of extra, and for what we pay per year for this, I don't think it would be worth all the extra server load to add it.
So, my only answer is, if you want to do an airline here, you probably wont care much about the autos as they are basically going to be pilots to fly airplanes to earn money to pay the bills. If you really want the full experience with more realism with non player pilots then you will want to look into a program that does that, Air Hauler series is the only one that I know if that does that. Rex is suppose to eventually put out something, but being it's been many years and they are more worried about weather that not everyone uses, I don't that will come out.
Anyway, not to pick on you, just showing the options that are out there.